From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 07:15:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD73B16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 07:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv03.inetworx.ch (serv03.inetworx.ch [212.254.227.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFD643D1D for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 07:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dev@eth0.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by serv03.inetworx.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC52252D70 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 16:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from serv03.inetworx.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (serv03.inetworx.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30924-02-2 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 16:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from serv04.inetworx.ch (serv04.inetworx.ch [212.254.227.197]) by serv03.inetworx.ch (Postfix) with SMTP id 511F2252D6F for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 16:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 217.162.71.141 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dev.eth0) by serv04.inetworx.ch with HTTP; Tue, 18 May 2004 16:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <1260.217.162.71.141.1084889702.squirrel@serv04.inetworx.ch> In-Reply-To: <1151647267187.20040518115319@playstos.com> References: <1151647267187.20040518115319@playstos.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 16:15:02 +0200 (CEST) From: "David E. Meier" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at inetworx.ch Subject: Re: how about Dell PowerEdge 750 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 14:15:34 -0000 Hi Alessandro, we are running 5.2.1 on a Dell 750 with SCSI RAID 1. So far no problems, installation showed no difficulties except for the keyboard: After the boot loader prompt it was "lost". Workaround: Select option: 6. Escape to loader prompt then enter: set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x2" and boot: boot To make this persistent you must set this value in /boot/device.hints later on. Besides this minor issue, everything went smooth for us. I guess 4.9 will work on it as well, it does for Dell's 1750. Dave > > Hello, > > we're evaluating some new servers, but before buying I'ld like to know > if someone else have experience (or hints or any other comments :) ) > about using FreeBSD 4.9 (or 4.10 when will be ready) on a Dell > PowerEdge 750 with SCSI hard drives. > > Does the Dell PERC4/SC (or DC) RAID controller is supported ? on the > handbook's i386 hardware list I've not found any PERC4 controller... > it means I'm lost ? ;) > > What about the "Intel 7210 server chipset" ? > > > Generally speaking, any suggestion about a low-cost Dell > rack-mountable FreeBSD-compatibile server ? :-) > > Many thanks in advance ! > > > > -- > > Alessandro de Manzano > > System & Network Administrator > Playstos - TIMA S.p.A. > Corso Sempione 63 > 20149 Milano, Italy > > tel.: +39-023314153 > fax : +39-02315678 > email: demanzano@playstos.com > > http://www.playstos.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >